🇰🇿 Kazakhstan's central bank has approved several pilot projects in digital assets, including tokenizing gold reserves, testing crypto payments via QR codes, and developing a national stablecoin pegged to the tenge—KZTE. These initiatives aim to test new financial instruments in a regulated sandbox and bring blockchain tech into the economy.

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🍿 FLOW — DeBridge Co-Founder: DeBridge is one of Flow's main bridge providers, yet we have not received any notification or coordination from the Flow team, which poses a big risk. The economic damage from a rushed network rollback could be much greater than the initial breach, and such a rollback would create systemic problems affecting honest bridges, custodians, users, and counterparties during the impact window. We are also calling on all Flow validators to stop validating transactions on the rollback network until the compensation plan is clarified, and until there is coordination with ecosystem partners and intervention by the security team.

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is tightening controls on card activity. Here are the situations that could flag you as a fraudster: - Transfers of 200,000 rubles or more between accounts in different banks, followed by sending the funds to a third party. - Cash deposits via an ATM using a digital card. - Changing the phone number linked to the card within 48 hours before a transfer. - Using an atypical provider or software to access online banking. And if you don’t switch to cryptocurrencies, they’ll crack down on them even more next year 😳

🇷🇺🏦 #BTC Sberbank has issued the country's first loan secured by cryptocurrency to a major BTC miner, Intelion Data. dlnews

🍿🔄 #FLOW Flow Foundation rolled back the mainnet update to v28 (before the security incident) to remove unauthorized transactions from the ledger.

🎁👀 CEO Lighter updates: - TGE details will be announced soon. - 50% of the total token supply will be allocated to the community. - Large LIT transfers are not tied to the airdrop; they aim to safeguard funds for investors and the team. - A universal margin lending system will launch, enabling Layer-1 assets to be used as collateral on Lighter. - The mobile app is set to launch in the coming weeks.

🇷🇺 The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has expanded the list of signs of fraudulent card transactions: - 🔴 SBP transfers of 200,000 rubles or more between your accounts in different banks, followed within 24 hours by a transfer to a third party. - 🔴 Attempts to deposit cash into another person’s account through an ATM using a digital card. - 🔴 Change of the phone number linked to banking services or Gosuslugi (government services) less than 48 hours before the transfer. - 🔴 Logging into online banking from unfamiliar software or providers, and linking the recipient of a digital ruble to the transfer register without the client’s consent.

🔍 Whale and institutional activity: - Two new wallets withdrew 26,241 ZEC ($13.5M) from Binance. - PumpFun moved 50M USDC to a CEX; since Oct 15, PumpFun has transferred 617.5M USDC to Kraken. - Bitmine staked 342,560 ETH ($1B) over the last 2 days. 🌸 **Ad** 🌸

🇷🇺 The Central Bank of Russia has expanded the list of signs of fraudulent card transactions. New indicators include: - transfers via the Fast Payment System (SBP) of 200,000 rubles or more from your own account in one bank to an account in another bank, followed by moving the money to a third party within 24 hours; - attempts to deposit cash into someone else’s account using a digital card through an ATM; - changes to the phone number used for online banking or State Services authorization less than 48 hours before a transfer; - using atypical software or a nonstandard communication provider to access online banking, and the recipient data in the transfer record matches the recipient data shown to you without your consent. Previously: parallel fin.system

📉 #BTC Global Google searches for the term “cryptocurrency” are still above their one-year low, while in the US they’ve fallen to their lowest level in a year.

🖼 NFT trading volume this week fell 4.72% to $6.352 million, while the number of buyers and sellers each rose by over 25%.

💰 #BTC — Robinhood is giving away $750,000 in Bitcoin to its users.

🕵️‍♂️🧯 #UNI Update: Uniswap's treasury moved 100 million UNI to the burn address.

Only 4 days left in the year, and BTC's annual candle is still red 👀 If the 4-year cycle stays intact, the crypto market could bottom in 2026 😳

🏴‍☠️🍿 #FLOW Update: A hacker stole about $3.9M, mainly via bridges (Celer, Debridge, Relay, Stargate) and then laundered the funds through ThorChain and Chainflip. No existing user balances were affected.

😓 Flow Foundation update - Exploit confirmed: a vulnerability in the execution layer was leveraged to withdraw about $3.9m via bridges (Celer, Debridge, etc.). - User balances are safe – existing deposits were not affected. - Current status: Read-only mode. Blocks continue to be produced, but new transactions are paused. Synchronization with partners (exchanges, bridges, DEX) is in progress. A full restart is coming soon. - Full report within 72 hours. - Posts on X: 1, 2. Previously: -54%.

Main events for the coming week Monday, December 29 - Unlocks: Hyperliquid (#HYPE) – 2.59% ($228 million) - US Crude Oil Inventories – 18:30 Moscow time Tuesday, December 30 - Unlocks: Kamino (#KMNO) – 2.29% ($11.46 million) - Unlocks: Zora (#ZORA) – 4.17% ($6.64 million) - Hedera (HBAR) testnet update - CROSS Dollar (#CROSSD) release - FOMC Meeting Minutes – 22:00 Moscow time Wednesday, December 31 - Eclipse (#ES) stops supporting #tETH and #tUSD - Artyfact (#ARTY) burns ARTY tokens - dYdX (#DYDX) completes Liquidation Rebate Program - Litewallet wallet termination - US Initial Jobless Claims – 16:30 Moscow time - Chicago PMI (Dec) – 17:45 Moscow time Thursday, January 1 - Unlocks: Sui (#SUI) – 1.17% ($62.05 million) - Unlocks: Eigen Labs (#EIGEN) – 2.20% ($14.40 million) - ASC launches the All InX platform - GMT accrual halved for Stepn (#GMT) - EU Digital Asset Tax Transparency Act (DAC8) comes into force - Denmark introduces unrealized capital gains tax on cryptocurrencies Friday, January 2 - Unlocks: Ethena (#ENA) – 0.63% ($20.08 million) - S&P Global Manufacturing PMI (Dec) – 17:45 Moscow time